The university gets cycling

We’re cycling! Together. For the climate. For us.

On Thursday, 28 April we start our university cycling challenge. Join us! You’ll be making a positive contribution to the climate and you’ll improve your fitness!

On this page you can stay informed about all activities and challenges of “Die Uni radelt”!

What is “The university gets cycling”?

This summer, we – university staff and students – would like to swap as many car kilometres as possible for bicycle kilometres. That’s why the University of Klagenfurt is taking part in the “Kärnten radelt” (Carinthia gets cycling) initiative.

Why should you switch your car for your bike more often?

You reduce your carbon footprint with every kilometre you commute by bike.
You look after your health and you keep in shape.
You save money as you don’t have to fill the tank so often.
You double the positive climate effect, because we reward cycled university kilometres by planting trees.

Who can join in?

Anyone can take part in the overall campaign! E-bike riders, mountain bikers, recreational cyclists. This campaign is not about achieving peak athletic performances. The challenges are open to students and university staff.

How does it work?

Collect kilometres for the climate. It’s really easy!

Please enter your details online at https://kaernten.radelt.at/. If you additionally register your university affiliation at https://kaernten.radelt.at/dashboard/challenges then the cycled kilometres you accumulate will be attributed to the university.

as member of staff:

as student:

Challenges and actions

You can find out about the individual challenges via this website and through our social media channels. When logging your kilometres, please make sure that you

enter each journey (from home to university or from university to home) separately and tag it with the label “PENDELN” (commuting) in the comment field.
don’t forget to enter the accumulated metres of altitude for each journey.

Stay tuned!

The following challenges will take place in the month of MAY:

Most kilometres cycled overall
Most kilometres commuted by bike (i.e. use the tag “PENDELN“ in the comment field when you log your kilometres)
Longest (single) cycled commuting route
Most altitude metres covered in a single journey while commuting by bike
Most frequent (simple) commute by bike
Longest (kilometres) business trip (AAU staff)

We also want to encourage participants to start their own challenges. Find out more on this website very soon.

What’s in it for you?

You can do something for yourself and the climate. Not enough? You can win attractive prizes as well.

We can already announce one of the prizes:

Voucher for a swiss stone pine hike with a biosphere park ranger through the rustic pine forest in the Nockberge biosphere park (provided by the Nockberge biosphere park)

Double the good!

We will plant trees for the bike kilometres collected by university members – one tree per 1,000 km cycled. This gives your efforts an additional positive boost! Will we manage to cycle the equivalent of circling the equator?